Dissemination

Publications

Ciara Breathnach and Rachel Murphy, ‘Fine lines: locating commercial sex work in official data, Dublin 1901 and 1911’, Urban History (2023), 1-22. doi:10.1017/S096392682300010X

Enda O’Shea, DocEng ’23: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2023 August 2023 Article No.: 25 Pages 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1145/3573128.3609349

Ciara Breathnach, Rachel Murphy, Alexander Schieweck, Enda O’Shea, Stuart Clancy, Tiziana Margaria, ‘Curating History Datasets and Training Materials as OER: An Experience’, 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC): 1570-1575. doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00242

Ciara Breathnach, Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Ciara Breathnach, ‘Respiratory disease and death registration, Dublin 1900-1902’, Annales de démographie historique, 143: 1 (2022), 39-72. DOI: 10.3917/adh.143.0039.

Pádraig Ó Líatháin agus Ciara Breathnach, ‘Trácht ar an Eitinn i nDialanna Luatha Sheáin Uí Ríordáin 1940–50’, Comhar, 8 (2022). 10.18669/ct.2022.04 

Ciara Breathnach, ‘Immigrant Irishwomen and maternity services in New York and Boston, 1860-1910’, 66: 1, Medical History (2022): 3-23. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2021.41

Ciara Breathnach and Eunan O’Halpin, ‘Female fatalities and sexual assault during the Irish war of Independence’ Medical Humanities, 48 (2022)94-103. doi:10.1136/medhum-2021-012178.

Alexander Schieweck, Rachel Murphy, Stuart Clancy, Enda O’Shea, Ciara Breathnach and Tiziana Margaria, “Evolution of the Historian Data Entry Application: Supporting Transcribathons in the Digital Humanities through MDD,” 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2022): 177-186, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00033.

Adam J. Doherty, Rachel A. Murphy, Alexander Schieweck, Stuart Clancy, Ciara Breathnach and Tiziana Margaria, ‘CensusIRL: Historical census data preparation with MDD support’ (IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Osaka, Japan, 2022): 2507-2514, doi:10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10021106.

Ciara Breathnach, Kirsten Mulrennan and Sineád Keogh, ‘Archival transcriptions, practice-based learning and research data in undergraduate medical history’, The History Teacher, volume 53, (2021): 1-34.

Ciara Breathnach, ‘Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons’, Health and History, volume 22:1 (2020): 104-125. DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0104

Ciara Breathnach and Tiziana Margaria, ‘In defence of the paper census’, Nature, Vol. 577 (9 January 2020), 170.

Ciara Breathnach, ‘Capital Punishment in Irish Prisons, Health and History, volume 22:1 (2020), 104-125.

Enda O’Shea, Rafflesia Khan, Ciara Breathnach, Tiziana Margaria, ‘Towards Automatic Data Cleansing and Classification of Valid Historical Data: An Incremental Approach Based on MDD’, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2020).

Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley, ‘Rural youth, seasonal labor and family income: Ireland 1890-1935’, Journal of the history of Childhood and Youth, 13.1 (2020), pp 1-22.

Ciara Breathnach, Najhan Ibrahim, Stuart Clancy and Tiziana Margaria, ‘Towards Model Checking Product Lines in the Digital Humanities: An Application to Historical Data’, in M. H. ter Beek, A. Fantechi and L. Semini (eds.), From software engineering to formal methods and tools and back (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 11865, Springer, 2019) pp 338-364.  

Major exhibitions, documentaries and recorded work

Ciara Breathnach, Aistear An Amhráin, documentary series discussing the historical significance of iconic Irish songs, this episode focused on ‘Take me up to Monto’ and drew on project outputs on coroner’s courts, maternal and infant mortality and sex work in Dublin, RTÉ1 (26 September 2023). 

Ciara Breathnach, Stuart Clancy and Rachel Murphy, Death in the Lanes: Tuberculosis in Limerick City, Online Exhibition https://youtu.be/WFGBVjmH-g8 (April, 2023).

Ciara Breathnach, Beyond the Bullets, Indiepics/RTÉ, six-part documentary series on Irish social life 1921, 1922 and 1923 (Nov/Dec 2022). Sole historical advisor.

Ciara Breathnach, speaking about Beyond the Bullets, Talking History, Newstalk FM, radio segment, (20 November 2023).

Ciara Breathnach, Páirteach i nDúnmharú – An Auxiliary to Murder, TG4, documentary, historical consultant and commentator (aired 15 December 2021).

Ciara Breathnach, An Focal ScoirBBC1 Northern Irelandcurrent affairs TV programme discussing Final Report of the Commission on Mother and Baby homes -historical advisor/commentator, (10 May, 2021)

Ciara Breathnach, Adhmhaidin ar RnaGRadio na Gaeltachta morning radio show discussing Final Report of the Commission on Mother and Baby homes -historical advisor/commentator (10 May 2021).

Ciara Breathnach, On the release of the final report of the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes Breathnach acted as a contributor to RTÉ’s  Prime Time investigates programme on the excess mortality (January 2021).

Ciara Breathnach, 74 days: Inside Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike -contributor, RTÉ1 (21 October 2020).

Ciara Breathnach, On the release of the interim report of the Commission on Mother and Baby Homes, contributor to RTÉ’s  Prime Time investigates programme on the excess mortality (18 April 2019).

Conference papers

The team has delivered 15 conference papers to date:

February 2020, Stuart Clancy, ‘Data and Disease: Mapping Tuberculosis in Limerick City 1901-1911′, Irish History Students’ Association Annual Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland.

February 2020, Ian Walsh, ‘”Information Received”: Death Certification and Dublin City Coroner’s Court in 1900′, Irish History Students’ Association Annual Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland.

January 2020, Stuart Clancy, ‘Introduction to the Death and Burial Data, 1864-1922 (2018-20-22) Project’, Irish Modern Urban History Symposium, Limerick, Ireland.

January 2020, Rachel Murphy, ‘Mapping Respiratory Disease in Dublin, 1901-1902’, Irish Modern Urban History Symposium, Limerick, Ireland.

November 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Interoperating Irish Death and Census Data, 1864-1922’, Social Science History Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, USA.

October 2019, Ciara Breathnach and Rachel Murphy, ‘Coroners’ inquests, GRO data and mapping respiratory disease in Dublin 1900-1902′, Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 Data Workshop, University of Limerick, Ireland.

October 2019, Stuart Clancy, ‘Data and Disease: Mapping Tuberculosis in Limerick City, 1901-1911’, Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 Data Workshop, University of Limerick, Ireland.

October 2019, Ian Walsh, ‘”Information Received”: Death Certification and Dublin City Coroner’s Court in 1900’, Death and Burial Data: Ireland 1864-1922 Data Workshop, University of Limerick, Ireland.

September 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Regulating life, disease and death: Dublin 1864-1902’, Transformation of the State in Ireland, c. 1600-1900, Hertford College, Oxford, UK.

August 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Soundscapes in evidence: Dublin City Coroner’s Court 1876-1901’, European Society’, European Association of History of Medicine and Health, Biennial Conference, University of Birmingham, UK.

June 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Respiratory complications, maternal and perinatal health: Dublin 1900-1902’, European Society of Historical Demography Conference, University of Pécs, Hungary.

June 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘“Katie is lighting”: Children and Burns in the Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1900-1902’, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

June 2018, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Urban life, death and the everyday at the Dublin Coroners’ Courts c. 1900′, Social History of Medicine Biannual Conference, University of Liverpool, UK.

June 2018, Ciara Breathnach,'”A Good Death”: Burial Law and Practices in Ireland 1857-1922′, American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Cork, Ireland.

April 2018, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Commemorating Life Through Death: Evolving Attitudes in Funerary Culture’, Louisiana Historial Association, invited participant on a death and burial panel.

PI Invited talks

May 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Prison Medicine: Health and Incarceration in History’. Keynote address at the ‘Prison Medicine: Health and Incarceration in History’ conference held at the Historic Parramatta Gaol, Sydney, Australia.

May 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Life and death in Dublin Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902’, University of Wollongong, Australia.

March 2019 Launch of Nälka, Finnish Famine Exhibition, Portumna Workhouse, Ciara Breathnach, Burial Practices and upward mobility Ireland and New Orleans, 1840-1900.March 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘What use is History in 2019?’, participant roundtable, Galway History Festival.

March 2019, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Galway Food then and now’, participant roundtable, Galway History Festival.

January 2019 , Ciara Breathnach, ‘Closing Comments’ at the final conference of the AHRC-funded ‘Bad Bridget – women and crime, past and present, Friday 25 January 2019, Public Records Office Northern Ireland.

December 2018, Ciara Breathnach, ‘Women and Rural Poverty 1922-1949′, at the Women’s History Association of Ireland “Why Not a Woman?” Celebrating Women in Public & Private Life in Ireland 1918-2018’ Dublin Castle 15 December 2018. Funded by the Department of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to mark #votáil100.

October 2018, Ciara Breathnach, A matter of life and death: the Dublin Coroner’s Court, 1876-1901’, Oxford Seminars in Irish History.

PhD

Stuart Clancy, ‘The Scourge of the Lanes: Tuberculosis in Limerick 1900-1922’ (conferred 29 August 2023). 

Ian Thomas Walsh, ‘The Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1891 – 1900: A Microhistory’ (awarded 22 September Exam Board).

Awards

American Conference of Irish Studies, James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences. Ciara Breathnach, Ordinary lives, death and social class: Dublin City Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2022) (2023).

Ciara Breathnach, Dr Rachel Murphy and Professor Tiziana Margaria, Excellence in Team Teaching Award, overall winner, University of Limerick (2023).  

Ciara Breathnach, Fulbright Scholar, New York University, Visiting Fellow (2022).

Ciara Breathnach, Irish Research Council, Research Ally Award (2021).

Ciara Breathnach, Individual Level, Excellence in Teaching Award, UL, FAHSS, winner (2019).

Ciara Breathnach, Visiting Research Leaders Fellowship, University of Wollongong (2019).